Officials in the Town of Quantico reversed their illegal position of barring anyone from photographing, or recording audio or video during a public Town Council meeting without the full prior consent of Council.
Councilman Russell Kuhns motioned at the start of the meeting to reverse a decision approved last month by the Council to ban such forms of meeting documentation. Councilman Tom Davis seconded the motion. It passed without the support of Council members Peggy and Alex Alexander.
But the man who made the motion later asked Mayor Kevin Brown to be excused from the meeting when he learned a member of the audience was recording video of the meeting.
“Are you recording us right now?” asked Kuhns of a man who stood to speak at citizens time.
“Yes, and I don’t have to ask,” the man replied, who stood to address the council’s vote last month to bar such recordings without permission.
“Well, pardon me for asking if I’m being recorded or not,” said Kuhns.
Kuhns never left the meeting despite asking to be excused.
Quantico Town Clerk Rita Frazier produces an audio recording of each Town Council meeting. Recordings of those meetings are made available to the public at the town’s municipal offices.
